- President Trump signed an executive order launching the Genesis Mission, a new federal effort aimed at hyper-accelerating AI research, development, and application across the United States.
- The order describes the Genesis Mission as “as urgent and ambitious as the Manhattan Project,” requiring the expansion of computing resources, increased access to federal scientific data, and the transition of AI to practical applications in science.
- Michael Kratsios was assigned to lead the mission, coordinating data and infrastructure from federal agencies for integration into a national AI platform.
- Secretary of Energy Chris Wright must establish the American Science and Security Platform to provide computational power and data for training scientific foundation models and AI agents.
- Within 90 days: identify all federal and private sector systems, data, and computational resources that can be mobilized for the mission.
- The order highlights the massive but fragmented federal data repository; the Genesis Mission will dismantle barriers to data sharing, allowing AI to utilize high-value information sources.
- Within 270 days: AI must be applied to national scientific challenges such as advanced manufacturing & robotics, biotechnology, fission & fusion.
- Expert Keegan McBride commented that this decision is a strong signal from the US about AI’s potential to transform the entire scientific and discovery cycle.
- The Genesis Mission builds upon the foundation of NAIRR (launched in 2020), a platform for sharing AI research infrastructure among federal agencies and partners like OpenAI, Google, and Palantir.
- Lynne Parker emphasized that long-term government investment in AI research is essential to sustain innovation and avoid losing technological position in the future.
- The announcement follows a series of new collaborations with AMD, HPE, and Nvidia to build the next generation of AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, accelerating computational power to serve the Genesis Mission.
📌 President Trump signed an Executive Order launching the Genesis Mission, “as urgent and ambitious as the Manhattan Project,” requiring the expansion of computing resources, increased access to federal scientific data, and the transition of AI to practical applications in science. This is a turning point as the US mobilizes federal data, supercomputers, and private partners to accelerate generative AI and foundation models. Within 90–270 days, data and infrastructure must be integrated, and AI must be deployed in advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, and nuclear energy sectors. The project inherits NAIRR, expands with new supercomputers from AMD, HPE, and Nvidia, strengthening the US’s leading position in AI.
